by John Mullinder | Oct 23, 2019 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Vancouver-based environmental group, Canopy, has launched a global campaign against paper packaging, claiming that three billion trees “disappear into packaging’’ every year leaving “a trail of deforestation, degraded forest systems, threatened species, and an...
by John Mullinder | Jan 21, 2019 | Fake News, Forestry
To most people, ancient means old, as in really old. Think of the ancient civilisations of Africa and Asia; of the Incas and the Mayans; and of the ancestors of today’s Indigenous peoples. When we turn to trees, the ‘ancient’ benchmark belongs to the bristlecone pine...
by Martin Fairbanks | Dec 14, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
If you’re working in the forest products industry you’ve probably had a similar experience to this. At a social occasion, somebody asks you what you do for a living. Then he or she brings up something they’ve heard in the media – deforestation,...
by John Mullinder | Oct 15, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Well not all of them yet. But I am honoured to summarise some very positive reviews of my recently published book: Deforestation in Canada and Other Fake News. Here’s a selection of them. For full review go to the Reviews page here. “The first chapters set out clear,...
by John Mullinder | Aug 23, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
When people learn that I work for the paper industry it’s usually not too long before the conversation somehow drifts towards ‘killing’ or ‘saving’ trees and deforestation. These are issues that have bugged me for years. Not the issues themselves but the widespread...
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